College football fans needed two hands to count the losses—nine in all—suffered by Top 25 teams last week. That left us with one thumb up, the perfect gesture after such sweet, thrilling, blissful chaos across the country.

Anyone for a repeat in Week 7? Let’s do some Big Game Hunting, starting with the five best matchups on the board. (All games on Saturday unless otherwise noted. All times Eastern.)

“I want that Tiger Stadium to be a loud, very difficult place to play for our opponent,” Miles said this week, and who can blame him for trying to redirect fans’ frustration with the way LSU has played?

Steve Spurrier, meanwhile, has taken every opportunity to remind fans—and his players—that the Gamecocks beat Georgia in 2011 yet lost the SEC East race to the Bulldogs anyway. In other words, the hard work is just getting started. And that’s quite accurate: After this brutal test comes another, potentially even more difficult one at Florida.

Promise: If the Gamecocks go 3-0 in that stretch, they’re getting our vote for No. 1.

2. No. 17 Stanford at No. 7 Notre Dame (3:30 p.m., NBC). Would you believe Stanford (4-1, 2-1 Pac-12) is on its first winning streak in the history of this rivalry? Three in a row now for the Cardinal. What a coincidence that those victories took place during Andrew Luck’s career.

The Irish (5-0) don’t necessarily have an advantage at the quarterback position now—Josh Nunes vs. Everett Golson could go either way—but it’s got to be a relief for Brian Kelly not to be operating at such a huge deficit. Both quarterbacks (Nunes vs. Arizona, Golson vs. Miami) are coming off excellent performances.

“He did some things in the second half that he had not done all year,” Kelly said of Golson, who was benched for the opening series of the Miami game after being late to a practice. “He recognized pressure, didn’t run out of the pocket but stayed in there, delivered some balls on time. If that continues to show itself, he’s going to be very, very difficult to defend.”

4. No. 11 Southern Cal at Washington (7 p.m., FX). The Trojans (4-1, 2-1 Pac-12) were physically dominated earlier this season by Stanford, which later lost at Washington (3-2, 1-1), which, by, the way, has beaten the Trojans two of the past three years …

You see where this is headed.

“They’ll be ready to go,” Lane Kiffin said of the Huskies, “and they are 3-0 at home.”

Sumlin probably wouldn’t mind not catching the Bulldogs at all. The teams they’ve gone on the road and beaten—Illinois, Virginia, Houston—haven’t turned out to be any good, but still, those were eye-opening wins. One more here and Dykes’ program will be the subject of a whole lot of 12-0, BCS talk.

Four of a Kind: Trap games

1. The purest definition of a trap game involves a gigantic victory one week prior, and that brings us to No. 4 Florida at Vanderbilt (6 p.m., ESPNU). There is no way on God’s earth that a group of young men who just knocked off LSU—and whose own program hasn’t dropped a game to Vandy since before they were born (1988, to be precise)—truly believe that a loss in Nashville is possible. Remember that when the Commodores (2-3, 1-2) give the Gators (5-0, 4-0) a run for their money.

3. If No. 6 Kansas State plays with fire at Iowa State (noon, FX) as it did last time out, it might get—what’s that tired old line?—burned. The Wildcats (5-0, 2-0) trailed Kansas 14-7 in the second quarter before finishing the game on a 49-2 tear, but ISU (4-1, 1-1) definitely isn’t Kansas. Those top-notch Cyclones linebackers will hit the heck out of Collin Klein, too.

4. Two reasons whyNo. 18 Louisville at Pittsburgh (11 a.m., ESPNU) is an upset waiting to happen. One, the Cardinals (5-0) are a terrible 1-6 in Big East openers. Two, U of L has dropped four straight to the Panthers (2-3, 0-2). Better have a good pregame speech ready, Charlie Strong.

Three Things I Don’t Want to Know Yet But Am Afraid I Already Do

1. Go ahead and lock the Wisconsin at Purdue (noon, Big Ten Network) winner into the conference championship game. And the crazy thing is, the Big Ten is so morbidly messed up that the Badgers (4-2, 1-1) or the Boilermakers (3-2, 0-1) could easily beat the Legends Division champ and go to (read: ruin) the Rose Bowl.

2. We’d love to call 5-1 Duke at 3-3 Virginia Tech (12:30 p.m., ACC Network) a mismatch, so we will: It’s a mismatch. Unfortunately, it’s a mismatch that favors the Hokies, who’ll be 2-1 in league play just like the Blue Devils come mid-afternoon on Saturday.

3. Some of us just happen to live in St. Louis, and some of us were so incredibly stupid in our much younger days (read: August) that we actually—wow, really admitting this?—looked forward to No. 1 Alabama at Missouri (3:30 p.m., CBS) as a potential mega-upset. Needless to say, the Tide (5-0, 2-0 SEC) will swallow the Tigers (3-3, 0-2) whole.

Two Underdogs You Definitely Should Bet Your House On

1. Auburn +4.5 at Ole Miss (12:20 p.m., SEC Network). Somebody’s getting off the schneid. Will it be the 1-4 Tigers, who are fading into oblivion at 0-3 in the SEC? Or will it be the Rebels (3-3, 0-2), who’ve lost 16 league games in a row? Respect the streak: 17 it is.

One More Thing

The Gamecocks and Tigers haven’t met on the field since 2008, which essentially means no one on either team knows—or cares—a thing about the other. And if you think that’s an overstatement, go on and guess how many times these programs have squared off over the past 16 years. Done? Try four. And they squeezed those four in back-to-back meetings in 2002-03 and again in 2007-08.

They don’t play for the Leap Year Trophy, but maybe they should.

Somebody, please explain what these schools are doing in the same conference.